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Climate change etc have no scientific solution; their solution is spiritual ||Acharya Prashant(2019)
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Climate Change
Spiritual Solution
Procreation
Body-identification
Carbon Footprint
Consumption
Spiritual Revolution
Do-gooders
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the questioner's desire to do good by first pointing to a graphic that illustrates the impact of various personal actions on climate change. He lists several popular 'green' activities, such as going car-free, avoiding flights, recycling, and adopting a plant-based diet, and notes that their combined effect on reducing CO2 emissions is relatively small, totaling around eight tonnes per year. He then contrasts these minor actions with the single most impactful action shown on the graphic: having one fewer child, which saves nearly 60 tonnes of CO2 equivalent annually. Acharya Prashant explains that people often engage in these 'small, good things' to conveniently escape the fact that they are doing something 'humongously evil.' He uses the example of a woman who sells organic fruits while proudly displaying her children, highlighting the hypocrisy of ignoring the 'elephant in the room.' He asserts that we try to hide our complicity in the great crime of killing the planet by performing these little good deeds. Acharya Prashant directly relates this behavior to the questioner's situation, pointing out the contradiction of working for a firm that harms the planet and then attempting to absolve the guilt by spending a few hours a week on a community garden. He states that the most significant issue facing humanity is procreation, which stems from a deep-seated body-identification. He argues that all the world's problems—biological, ecological, financial, and international—arise from this single root cause. He concludes that the solution to such massive problems is not scientific or legislative but requires a spiritual revolution. One must address the root cause, which is man's consciousness and his identification with the body. Without this fundamental shift, even if procreation is limited, humanity's destructive tendencies will manifest in other ways. Therefore, only a spiritual revolution, a change in man's consciousness, can truly save the planet.